Farm Families Live Better and Pay More for It
Farm families have gained in living standards since 1941 with higher spending in medical care housing and labor saving equipment. A USDA study using 1955 rural data shows farm household expenditures nearly two thirds higher than 1941 after price adjustments, though city spending rose faster earlier. electricity water and appliances spread rapidly among farms, while food patterns shifted toward eating out and processed foods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Usda Institute of Home Economics
United States
Bureau of the Census
Euipment
Lancaster County Farmers Attend PFA Washington Meeting
Four Lancaster County farmers joined a Pennsylvania Farmers Assn delegation in Washington DC this week to press Congress on price supports farm programs and labor issues. They met with Congressman Paul Dague and planned visits to USDA offices, including under secretary True Morse and former PA agriculture secretary Miles Horst. the group arrived Tuesday at 2 pm and planned to return March 12.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lancaster County
Washington DC
Paul Dague
Pennsylvania Farmers’ Assn
Congressional
Pennsylvania
Washington
J Roy Greider
Rl Mount Joy
Henry Sheiner
Lititz
Noah Reider Sr
Manheim
John Weidman
Mount Joy
US Department of Agriculture
Truee Morse
Miles Horst
Seactair of Agriculture
Nations
Potato Prospects Fall on Weather Delays
The Crop Reporting Board now forecasts the winter potato crop at 4 975 000 hundredweight, down 715 000 cwt from last month due to adverse weather in Florida.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crop Reporting Board
Florida
Families eat less of key foods they produce themselves
The article notes that families consume less of important foods when they grow or produce them domestically compared to buying from markets, suggesting self-sufficiency reduces consumption of certain staples.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Tos
McCormick Farm
Ephrata
J. B. Hostetter & Son
Mr. Joy
C. E. Wiley & Son
Quarryville
Wakefield
Cope & Weaver Co
Willow Street
D. L. Diem & Sons
J. Paul Nolt
Gap
Messick Farm Equip
Elizabethtown
C. B. Hooker
David Kurtz
Morgantown
PFA
Washigton
Potato Prospects
Fry
John Fry
Hollinger RD
Lancaster
Babcock
Babcock Hatchery
Lancaster County Branch
Russell Mease
Madison
Bob Decker
R. D
Milford
New Jersey
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